Pink Belly on Motoro - Sign of Trouble??

[ctoychik]

Can you get some pictures of the underside of the ray? We'd be able to tell you for sure.

By the way, your ray is gorgeous!

Hmmm, the pix on the first page are the only underbelly photos i ever got. my ray does not "fly" too much - perhaps because of the aros on top

thanx - i love my ray ^^ like i said before getting a mate for him/her

Agreeded, time to do a water change.

Hmmm, from the photo day to water change - there are still four days to go. Water change in my tanks are weekly 25%-30% change. Water parameters are as they are supposed to be though i agree that my tanks are not the most aestheticallly pleasing - but i am into fish not the tank looks the next tank i will attempt to decorate a bit (got all them fake plants and all that bought and ready)

 

[abortedsoul]

Can you get some pictures of the underside of the ray? We'd be able to tell you for sure.

By the way, your ray is gorgeous!

This was in reference to sexing the ray; didn't notice that it wasn't clear until after the fact.

 

[abortedsoul]

Hmmm, the pix on the first page are the only underbelly photos i ever got. my ray does not "fly" too much - perhaps because of the aros on top

thanx - i love my ray ^^ like i said before getting a mate for him/her



Hmmm, from the photo day to water change - there are still four days to go. Water change in my tanks are weekly 25%-30% change. Water parameters are as they are supposed to be though i agree that my tanks are not the most aestheticallly pleasing - but i am into fish not the tank looks the next tank i will attempt to decorate a bit (got all them fake plants and all that bought and ready)

From the top pics, the shape of the fins appear to be female. I've made that assumption before with very young rays, only to find out that the ray had tiny claspers.

 

[Gaurav_patil]

Even my stingray has a pinkish tinge at the bottom and a few creamish patches. Near his eyes , skin is a bit whitish and scaley. He used to eat aggressiveness but from past week he eats very little. Please help. I don't know what to do.

 

[Tobiassorensen]

Even my stingray has a pinkish tinge at the bottom and a few creamish patches. Near his eyes , skin is a bit whitish and scaley. He used to eat aggressiveness but from past week he eats very little. Please help. I don't know what to do.

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Post your water parameters in the following order. Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and ph. An your tanksize, filtration, wc schedule and tankmates. When did you do a wc last time?

It looks like ammoniaburn or your nitrate is sky high atm.

 

[Gaurav_patil]

I currently don't have water test kit handy. My tank is 39inch*15inch*21inch. I change around 25% water weekly, every Sunday (I did it today). Tankmates are an Asian arowana and a knife fish.

 

[Gaurav_patil]

I kinda have a feeling it could be my substrate. It's not too large grained. It's sugar sand. But it's not too fine enough either I feel. Also I have a driftwood but no sharp edges on that as far as I could see.

 

[Tobiassorensen]

I currently don't have water test kit handy. My tank is 39inch*15inch*21inch. I change around 25% water weekly, every Sunday (I did it today). Tankmates are an Asian arowana and a knife fish.

You should always have an testkit on hand.
Whats your filtration? I can say right now that that tank is way too small for all your fish.

 

[Tobiassorensen]

I kinda have a feeling it could be my substrate. It's not too large grained. It's sugar sand. But it's not too fine enough either I feel. Also I have a driftwood but no sharp edges on that as far as I could see.

That has nothing to do with your substrate thats for sure. You need an bigger tank do bigger wc and up your filtrationgame for sure.

 

[Gaurav_patil]

I have an externalcanister filter with uv and an internal filter just for the extra flow.
Yeah and regarding tank size I too know it's small. Will be upgrading in a few months. Right now aro is 10 inch and ray is 6 so they are just managing but I know it is not an excuse to keep them in this small tank for too long.